Hi.
That worked - thanks.

My problem now is that everytime it goes through the loop it adds a line, which is ok if there is output. My problem is that i am now getting 3 to 4 blank lines so i now need to put an if statement to say if a blank line already exists don't add another.

Do you know how to do that?

CODE:
SUBDIR_LIST=`ls -d fmr*`
for DIR in `ls -d fmr*`; do
/usr/atria/bin/cleartool findmerge $DIR -fver .../strutsplus-2.0_bos/LATEST -print >> /home/a442592/merge_results1.txt
echo >> /home/a442592/merge_results1.txt "\n"
done
cat /home/a442592/merge_results1.txt | sed 's/Needs Merge//g' | sed 's/"//g' |cut -d[ -f1 > /home/a442592/merge_results2.txt


Thanks
Angela